Treatment of scabies with 5 % permethrin cream: Results of a German multicenter study;Therapie der skabies mit 5%iger Permethrin-Creme: Ergebnisse einer deutschen multizentrischen studie

JDDG - Journal of the German Society of Dermatology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 407-413

  Hamm, Henning ^a   Beiteke, Ulrike ^b,c   Höger, Peter H ^d   Seitz, Cornelia S ^a   Thaci, Diamant ^e   Sunderkötter, Cord ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Department of Dermatology   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^e GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZYL BENZOATE; CROTAMITON; INFECTOSCAB; IVERMECTIN; LINDANE; PERMETHRIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREAM; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRURITUS; SCABIES; SKIN EXAMINATION;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIPARASITIC AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMOLLIENTS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INSECTICIDES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERMETHRIN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SCABIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646594100     PISSN: 16100379     EISSN: 16100387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1610-0387.2006.05941.x     Document Type: Article

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